When you leave the comfort of your own culture and enter another, you don't leave your cultural baggage behind; you take it with you. You become the proverbial square peg in a round hole. At this point you can maintain your squareness, or you can choose to adjust and identify more with your host culture. In this session professor Duane H. Elmer:

- uses a chart to demonstrate the adjustment process of fitting into the culture;

- talks about the messages people who care or don't care to adjust to a new situation send to the local people;

- explains what people tend to do when they experience differences; 

- invites the students to share their thoughts about culture shock.